The Russellville Democrat., 1887-09-28

could invent, but the hotter the persecu-
tion the more rapid the spread OF that de
nomination until you know what great
host they have become, and what tre-
mendous force for Gel and truth they are
welding all the world over. II was
persecution that gave Scotland to Pres
byterianism. 1t was persecution which
gave our own land first to civil liberty
and afterward to religious freedom.
Yea, may go further back and say II
was persecution that gave the world the
great salvation OF the Gospel. The
ribald mockery, the hungering and thirst.
ing, the unjust trial and ignomnious
death, whore all the force Of hell's fury
was hurled against the cross, was the
| introduction of that religion which is yet
| to be the earth's deliverance from guilt
| and sutf ering, and her everlasting en-
| thronement among the municipalities OF
Heaven.
The State has sometimes said TO the
| Church: stCome let me fake your hand
and will help YOU" What has been the
RESULT The Church has gone back and
has lost its estate of holiness and has be-
come ineffective AT other times the State
has said to the Church; ~ will crush
you" What has been the results After
| the storms have spent their fury the
| Church, so far from having lost any OF its
| force, has increased and is worth infinitely
more after the assault than before it.
| The Church is far more indebted to the
| opposition of civil government than to its
| approval. The fires of the stake have
| only been the torches which Christ held in
| his hand by the light of which the Church
| has marched to her present position. In the
| sound of racks and implements of torture
| hear the rumbling of the wheels of the
| gospel chariot Scaffolds of martyrdom
have been the stairs by which the Church
has assembled. Aquafortis is the best test
| of pure gold.
| Furthermore, our subject impresses us
| that sins will come to exposure. Long,
| hong ago had these brothers sold Joseph
| to Egypt. They had suppressed the crime,
| and it was profound secret, well kept by
| the brothers. But suddenly the secret is
out. The old father hears that his son is
| in Egypt, having been sold there by the
malice of his own brothers. How their
cheeks must have burned and their hearts
sunk at the flaming out Of this suppressed
crime. The smallest iniquity has a
thousand tongues, and they will blab out
an exposure.
| Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites,
their sheep and their oxen. But when be
| got down there among the pastures he saw
some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill,
and so he thought he would steal them.
| He drove them towards home, but stopped
| toreport to the prophet how well he had
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